I have an Openvpn Server with a VPS and I have no issue connecting to it via my Windows Openvpn client. However, when I connect to it, I see that I'm assigned 10.0.8.2, but my address doesn't change from what is provided to me by my ISP. It doesn't change whether I'm on my VPN or not.
Follow step by step and hide your IP address. This tutorial will help you to install OpenVPN GUI so you could install and use OpenVPN on Windows 10. Follow step by step and hide your IP address. Steps to setup OpenVPN on Windows 10. Now you have to install OpenVPN. Hello, I've done a bit of googling and saw that a few people have had this issue in the past, however, none of them had working solutions. I've setup an OpenVPN Server on my home router (ASUS RT-AC66U) and when I connect to it from my laptop, my IP address does not change to what it should be.
If I use my commercial VPN client, then my IP address changes.
I have tried the 'Run as Administrator' option for the Openvpn client software and this doesn't change anything on my end.